Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Carrie, the protagonist of Claire Cameron’s debut novel The Line Painter, is consumed by grief after the sudden death of her boyfriend Bill. She takes off in Bill’s car, headed, she decides, for the western reaches of Canada. Friends and family, worried–both about her state-of-mind and for her safety–call repeatedly on her cell phone, leaving…

Daja Wangchuk Meston begins his memoir dramatically with a desperate leap from a third story hotel window in a remote area of Tibet. It’s a quick glimpse at a man pushed beyond his limits, unsure of his place in the world, and desperate beyond sense. When he jumped, he fully expected to die. That was…